Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59473 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-32
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the role of heterogeneous households in propagating shocks over the business cycle by generalizing a basic sticky-price model to allow for imperfect risk-sharing between households that differ in labor incomes. I show that imperfectly insured household consumption distorts household incentive to supply labor hours through an idiosyncratic income effect, which in turn generates strategic complementarities in price setting and thus amplifies business cycle fluctuations. This mechanism diminishes the role of nominal rigidities and makes sticky-price models more consistent with microeconomic evidence on the frequency of price changes.
Subjects: 
heterogeneous households
Phillips curve
price stickiness
strategic complementarities
consumption insurance
JEL: 
E13
E30
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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